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When consciousness "merges" it inhabits whatever it merges with and that becomes invisible up until the point you "unmerge" where it becomes visible once more. The shocking thing to me is how fast, how broad, and how varied the things you can merge with are:
@nosilverv merging sounds like fusion https://t.co/DSDkTjelLO
@nosilverv Taking name-inspiration from the computer-programming world, here I think I can recommend the term "forking off" instead of "unmerging" when it's about unmerging via drugs. eg "Yeah he's had too much lately; it's understandable how he's just forked off for a while."
@nosilverv i don't think it's the duration of time spent in frame. some frames get sour feeling over time, like binging on junk food, but it's for essentially the same reason binging on junk food does, it's pica for your actual needs and desires
@nosilverv Scott McCloud was first to bend my mind on this, I've been keenly aware of it ever since: https://t.co/wLjAOGWVBn
@nosilverv This book: https://t.co/K3US6bXbZF A delightful read which shaped my view on many things, not the least communication and storytelling
@nosilverv Heidegger talks about this in terms of technology (“Present-at-hand” vs “ready-to-hand”) but doesn’t generalise. He doesn’t generalise because he’s thinking about human relationship to technology specifically. You’re thinking about human relationship to the material world.
@nosilverv this was one of the Buddha's main meditations: merging w/object, noting dukkha, releasing object, and merging with the next lower conceptual object: village -> people -> wilderness -> earth -> space -> consciousness -> nothingness -> npnynp -> open awareness https://t.co/hLuGLJzrgS
@nosilverv My friend Leo learned a technique from a Daoist master (I believe) called "tinging," which, AFAIK, entails inhabiting objects external to the body with consciousness to understand their inner properties (through phenomenology)